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28 May 2009
Click on the link below to download and read the newsletter for the OECD activity Improving School Leadership. The work of the ICP Council is mentioned in the newsletter.
Click here to download the newsletter (Kb pdf file).
20 May 2009
ESHA's Reponse to the OECD report on its investigation into Improving School Leadership:
"The keynote address to the 2008 ESHA conference made by Dr Barbara Issinger, OCED Director of Education, extended the invitation to ESHA members to respond to the content, recommendations and findings of the Report and the additional follow-up Case Studies.
"In November 2008, ESHA attended the ICP (International Confederation of Principals) Council Meeting in Windsor to observe ICP’s initial response to the Report. Use was made of Professor Louise Stoll’s Toolkit to identify the key messages in each of the four findings and the follow-up recommendations for system leadership.
"Delegates acknowledged that the report makes a number of important points, the first being that ‘Improving Leadership’ is an international report drawn from research across 22 nations, looking at School Leadership now and suggesting the key priorities for the future.
"Priorities emerged ..."
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Click here to download the complete ESHA paper (88Kb pdf file).
April 2009
After the April 2009 ICP Council Meeting in Adelaide, Australia, the following statement has been distributed by Virginia O'Mahony, the regional representative for Europe:
"I am sending you below the summary of what we decided were our Regional Priorities.
1. Autonomy, especially in areas such as:
a. Staff appointment
b. Finance
c. Curriculum
d. Resources
(Comments such as ‘Give us the wherewithal’, ‘We need autonomy if we are to be held accountable’ were common at our meeting.)
2. Principals must be consulted meaningfully by politicians in the development of policy. There was a strong desire to shape things for the better.
3. Making the profession more attractive by providing the salary, resources and making possible a ‘leadership team’ to make the job ‘doable’."
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